Latest News — GI-ESCR
New Update from Geneva: 68th Session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights October 2020
Civil Society Organisations Applaud International Finance Corporation Decision to Move Away from For-Profit Education Investments
TB-Net Statement on the COVID-19 pandemic and the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies
New Blog: GI-ESCR’s response to the COVID-19 Pandemic – Impacts and alternatives from Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Changing Times
New Statement by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on COVID-19 and ESC rights
Upcoming Online Event: The Abidjan Principles - a practical tool to address global challenges
Human rights bodies increasingly call on States to address climate crisis, new report shows
New Update from Geneva: 67th Session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights March 2020
En pleine crise liée au coronavirus, un Comité de l’ONU questionne le respect du droit à la santé en France et dénonce la « dégradation du système »
ACHPR passed a resolution to develop norms on States’ obligations to regulate private actors involved in the provision of social services
Human Rights Council Appoints New Mandate Holders
GI-ESCR and partners come together to address the challenges for realising housing rights in the context of environmental degradation, urbanization and climate change
Be a feminist, demand that the multinationals pay their taxes!
GI-ESCR welcomed the Guidelines of the Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing
UK Court puts a halt to Heathrow runway expansion project, on climate grounds
Long overdue: the human rights council should finally recognise the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
Event: Local struggles for housing rights, in the context of environmental degradation, urbanisation and climate change
Announcement: Executive Director, Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona Appointed to Landmark High-Level Panel to Tackle Illicit Finance
New toolkit: Leveraging The UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies For Climate Campaigning: A Toolkit For Activists And Campaigners
Joint Alternative Report to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for the fifth Periodic Review of Chile
GI-ESCR's ED participation in a UN HumanRights Workshop on economic, social, and cultural rights
GI-ESCR welcomes the publication of CESCR's landmark General comment No. 26 (2022) on land and economic, social and cultural rights
GI-ESCR’s latest research on Public Services and Indigenous Peoples
The importance of ESC rights in the context of addressing inequalities
GI-ESCR and partners make a joint submission to the UK Parliament International Development Committee
The Santiago Declaration: a result of the Our Future is Public Conference co-organised by GI-ESCR
International Day of Education: GI-ESCR and MIDH presented the advocacy strategy for the implementation of the recommendations of their joint research report
Principles on public health emergencies and human rights: GI-ESCR continues to contribute to the drafting
We celebrate the call for the first Latin American Summit for global, inclusive, sustainable and equitable taxation
GI-ESCR and partners contributed to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education
